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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bbfirebird, post: 537124, member: 16381&quot;]I&#039;m kind of a history nerd, so what I&#039;m starting is a WWII-themed set of world coins.&nbsp; There&#039;s actually 2 sets for this I&#039;m going to do.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The first set is post-WWII coins that commemorate certain battles or relate to the war in general.&nbsp; I just got a 1975 Russian Rouble that has the Volograd (formerly Stalingrad) Monument.&nbsp; It commemorates the 30th Anniversary of WWII victory.&nbsp; The Russians seem to have issued a commemorative on every ten-year anniversary of WWII.&nbsp; I was also going to get the US commemoratives of WWII, Marine Corp (with the Iwo Jima scene), etc, along with some Nazi-era German coins.&nbsp; But the fun thing is that you add whatever you want- I still haven&#039;t completed my list yet.&nbsp; For instance, I&#039;m adding an Ike dollar to the set- while it doesn&#039;t directly relate to WWII, Eisenhower was the Supreme Allied Commander, so I&#039;m adding it in there.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The second set is coins minted during WWII that have some tie-in to the war.&nbsp; This includes the steel Lincoln cents (as well as the shell-case ones), Jefferson War Nickels, foreign occupation coinage, the Candian &quot;V&quot; coin (think it&#039;s a nickel?), and so on.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t decided if I&#039;m going to stick to a &quot;type&quot; mentality for this set, or if I&#039;m going to get them all (for example, all 3 steel cents, 11 Jeffersons, etc.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I haven&#039;t been interested in world coins until about 2 weeks ago, when I bought one of those large encyclopedia-type books of world coins.&nbsp; There are really some fascinating coins out there.&nbsp; You can do all sorts of themes- war, space, world leaders, etc.&nbsp; You could even do something like a type set of &quot;cents&quot; (or whatever a country calls their .01 denomination) from all over the world.&nbsp; Or for a huge challenge, your birth year type set of world coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you&#039;d rather stick to US coins and like the type set concept, what about a type set consisting of only proofs (or errors, or varieties)?&nbsp; I&#039;ve even seen people putting together a type set using only counterfeits.&nbsp; Talk about a challenge.&nbsp; Just think outside the box, and you&#039;ll come up with something.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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